The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

UNEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK. The discount market is now assuming a quieter appearance, although no change can be noted in the quotations. The mercantile classes have very generally over supplied themselves with accom• modation, and with the less demand for money now experienced, capitalists are beginning to evince a disposition to work at the Bank of Eng land minimum. The large number of bills, how ever, that have as yet been brought forward have been charged 9 to 9, per cent. About £82,000 in gold waa taken into the Bank on Saturday, but 100,000 sovereigns were with drawn for transmission to the Brazils, The Star of Tasmania from New Zealand has brought £83,240. A call of £2 per share has been made on the shares of the Central Argentine Railway Company, for the lines from Rosario to Cordova, to be paid for on the Ist proximo; and a similar amount will be required on the Ist December next. The half-yearly drawing of Turkish Six per Cents., 1863, took place on the 2d inst. at Paris, si and the particulars may be seen at the offices of the 1 Imperial Ott oman B an k . s] Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentea were 66f. 65c. Firm. The Stock Exchange markets this morning pre- 1 sent an improving tendency, and speculators appear once more disposed to close their " bear" accounts g and operate for a r i se i n pr i ces. Accordingly, all desoriptions of stock are buoyant, and affairs exhi- s t bit a more favourable aspect. The Funds have 1: recovered per cent., Consols being 90; 911 for ii money, and 90/. lex div. for the account. The 1( New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 881 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 98, to 4s. dis.; and India 5 per 1( Cents., 104; etc There is mo re an i mat i on i n the Foreign Market, A and prices ha ve generally improved. Turkish 6 per utc Cents., 1862, are 70; 71 ; ditto Consolidis, 60/ 8 ; Mexican, 431 j; do., New Loan, dis„ prem.; to Greek, 22 I.; Spanish Passive, 34 34i ; Porto gum, 48 ; Swedish Scrip, par, 1 prem. ; Russian Scrip, prem. ; and the Confederate Loan, st o 661- 67. '2 Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather inactive, but prices have in most instances exhibited more firmness. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain with out material alteration, The following are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—Provincial 13inking Corporation, prem.; International Land Credit, 11 2 prem. ; Telegraph C o n s t ruc ti on , I 11 prem.; Sabloniere Hotel, 1 11 prem.; North Australian Company, 1 11 prem. ; Imperial Bank of China, a 1 p rem. ; City Offices, prem. ; and M . Iron Works, 1 d prem. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent, Consols .................. 904 1 901 14 Ditto Account, • May 8 .............. 90 per Cent. Reduced .................. 8 8 1 New 3 per Cent ....................... 88a New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894... . Ditto 6 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan,, 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — M arch. J 9 une. Ex chequer Bills, £l,OOO , 24 & 3 per Cent 2O 4 Ditto £5OO Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 54 per Ct. Ditto Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Ditto 6 per Cent. July, 1670 Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent . Ditto 5 per C en t ., J an. 1872 ... Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONN O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent........... Ditto 1859...... Brazilian 5 per Cent ....... . Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Egyptian 7 per Cent....., / .., Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto, 1839 and 1869 ...... — Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account.... 424 j I Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 41 per Cent, Ditto Account.... Ditto 3 per Cent. (liTribarren) Ditto 41 per Cent~ 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 48 Ditto Account Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid pmßussian 5 p er C ent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent.; 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 8.51 anrdinian 5 p er C ent .... Ditto Account 'Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account .. _ — Ditto Ne w D e f erred .. Ditto Account ...................... 46 51 DitDitto Passive ...................... to Acc ount .............. ...... Fdpanish C ert. of Coup not funded ..... . 34 SDitto Account. .............. 11/ Twedish, 4 per Cent. ........................ urkish 6 per Cent. 1851 .............. Ditto Account ...................... Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .............. Ditto Account ...................... Ditto, £lOO Bonds .................. 72 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 .............. 701 Ditto Account .. 70} Ditto £lOO Bonds.. Ditto 1863 .. 68 Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 'Ditto Account.... 'Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto Scrip, £l5 p a id Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Loud Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. -- Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs., Ditto Account 671 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Mone .......... Ditto Accou n t..... 894 x d Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Very full prices. Sales about 10,000 bales. Im. ports, 3,379 ; previously, 4,38 g. LORD HOUGHTON will take the chair at the inaugural dinner of the newspaper press fund, to be held at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 21st in:it, The condition of trade in the manufacturing dis tricts during the past we e k h as b een exceedingly active. At Manchester, however, the market for cloths has been slightly af f ected by the increase in the rate of discount, but at Leeds, Huddersfield, H a lif a x, Leicester, and Bradford, a large inquiry prevailed for all descriptions of goods. At Bir mingham and Sheffield great buoyancy has been noticed, manufacturers having received large orders both from the country and abroad. A special meeting of shareholders of the Bank of London was held to-day for the purpose of increas ing the capital by the additional sum of £200,000, , 1 which is to be divided into 2,000 shares of £lO ! each. Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., who occupied the chair, moved the adoption of the necessary resolu tions, and observed that while other kindred insti tutions had progressed the Bank of London had exhibited still greater advancement. The direc tors had always been actuated by a policy to secure the confidence of the public, while at the same time promoting the interests of the shareholders. The amount expected to be realised by the premium on the new shares would represent £140,000, which, added to the reserve fund, would raise that item to ; an amount as to preclude the necessity of increasing it out of the ordinary earnings every year. The a resolutions were agreed to nem. con., and the thanks (2 . of the meeting voted to the directors. BEARE MARKETS—This day. Share' I Railways. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Closing Business Prioe. , done. .14.1111 r. , Wol., and Str. Val. al st Blythe and Tyne. io Bost.,Sleat,andMid.Co al st Bristol and Exeter ..., 10( st Caledonian lOl 50 Cork and Bandon al 20 Cornwall al 10 Do A(A gets no di‘ a] 10 I Do. B till 6p c.p an.has a] ' been paid to P. 50 (Dublin ez Belfast June. al 25 IDun.,Perth,&Ab. June.' al st Edinburgh & Glasgow.! la St IGlasg. and S. Western. 10C st Great Eastern, Ord. stk i 100 at 1 Ditto A stock 1 100 st I Ditto East Anglian stl 10C " IGreatNorthof Scotland ; 101 st Great Northern 11 st I Do A stock Et I Do Bdo st Gt. S. an]i W. of Irelan , lOO et 'Great Western st Do Str Val gua. stool — at Lancashire & Yorkshire 1, 1 1 9 st London and Black wali 10, I 64 st Lon., Bright.,& S. Ccast 100 100 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 39 et Lon. & North Western 100 1( St st Lon. & Sty.th Western 100 06 4 st Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 53 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 12i Do i eharee.. st Metropolitan all 110 111 s[ Midland Do New at Do Birming. & Derby 100 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland a 7" 25 Do. i shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line it North British st ' Edin., Perth, & Dundee 10' st Nth. Eastern—Berwio 101 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.1 1 it Do Leeds lo' st Do York et Do Carlisle lO st North London 10 Do New .18.1 North Staffordshire 10 I. and S. W. Junction al st Scottish Central st Scot N. E., Aber. stock 1( st Do Scot. Mid. stock 1( 10 Shrews. and Welohpoo, a, st Shropshire Union st South Devon lOl st South Eastern et South Wales it S. York. and River Dun 101 20 Staines,Wok.,and Wok al 115 Stockton & Darlington al 15 Do 1: t 5 Do New, 18tt it Taff Vale.. ... ..... 10 Do 13 . i ,0 Do C ,0 Ulster ;5 Do .10 Do it Vale of Neath t Victoria sta. and Plm lO t Waterford & Kilkeuny 10 t West Cornwall lf t W. Hartlepool Har.&R lit t West Midland -Oxford) 1 t Do Newport! t Do Hereford! II I s si 8i 83 85 1171 lifq 11 - - 11 6 7 .11 - .11 35 37 16 17 68 0 101 106 46i 7 6i 7i .00 128 129 100 115 136 100 111 J 1. , 2 100 91 93 100 63 63} 100 - 109} 66 101 41 lOok 97i S 4 1 100 IC2 501 61i )0 244 `4s# ;0 991 1001 —d, 10 155 i 66} '0 884 90 128 131 5 1 p 11 76 2i 78 Ll lof 10 121 123 i 0 39 40 00 10 64 66 10 33 35 8) 90 'IC4 1(7 Ll 74 8} 11 se) 376 17 94 10 E , l 0 8 B}p )0 165 17u 85 7 t 313 4 p 11 - 95 97 BRITISH POSSE Railways Ittante &St Lawrence al Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 1 , Gu. 5 per cent... :0 Do. New . 10 Do. E. 104 Buffalo and Lake Huron al 10 Do. Preference al DO I Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 101 p. et. bd A s. ug. 1, 1872 DO Do. do. July 1,18 Th 10 00 Do. do. June 1, 1871 IC st Clcutta,stS.Eastn.(Lin. st Cape Town & Dock Solt II :ock Eastn. Bengal gu. 6p. 1. c'ok East Indian. gu. 5 p. 0. V. 20 Do. do. G 1 20 Do. do. II do. .. ock Grand Trunk of Canada to 00 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. al 00 Do. do. deferred...... al 00 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. al 00 Do. do. deferred._ al 00 Do. 3d P, ef. stock al DO Do. do. deferred...... al DO Do. 4th Pref. stock... al DO Do. do. deferred...... al Dok GtlndiaPenth.gua.sp.o 101 10 Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1882 - )ok Gt. South.of India (Lim g uaranteed 5 per cent 1C 104 Gt. W. of Canada Shares a: 104 Do. New •• .. 1 )0 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt al )0 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... al 10 Indian Branch Limited )ck Madras guar., s p. o. •• 101 )ck Do. 44 p. o. Extension 101 )ck Do. d 0........ 101 :0 Do. Fifth Extension. )ck slelb.Corp. 6p. o. kinds. 101 PO Melb. & Ilobson's Bay. al 00 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. al. SO Newßrenswick Candy Class A and B. al' N.ILI.C'daB po Ist pt bds 11 stork Soinde • • ) (1 1 stock Do. Delhi... f • • 11 IC Do. do st Do. Punjaub Do. Do. ........ , , Do. Indus. St . Flo.) 1 COLONIAL GOVEEJ ti p.c.J &J 187746 ...... 10 , Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. tel Do. a p. c. Mar. & Sept. 101 Do. sp. c. Jan. &J uly. 10 , Do. 5 Inscribed stock 101 Cape G. Hope, 6p 0,1873 101 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 101 Do. 189 C, 101 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 10( ICeylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 10( !Mauritius 6 per cent 10( INatal Gov. 6 per cont. 101 -- 'N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&Jul) 10 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oot. 1 1 S.W. G ov. 5 p 1801 1( Do. 5 p. c.,18/1 to 134 t Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 1E ,New Zealand 6 p cent. 10 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling., 1875 lO ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. e lOl Aus G6p.c.1878.& up lOl Vio.Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.&July 101 Do. io 6 p.c. A0.&00b.. 101 BRITISH 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold I - ulifford Amalgamated - - Devon G. Con,. (Tavist ) 1 - East Bassett (Illogan) 3( - East Clogau Gold. Ltd - - East Caradon ...... - East Cara Brea... 3 ., - E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) 8.1 Gam.azSt.Aubyn(Gwen.; - Great South Tolgus - is. Wheal Vor (Idelston, 44 - Grenville 5.11 - tiered's-Foot B.' - ilingston Downs 4.1 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (tiny Lelant - Marke Valley.. 11 vndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 2, - New Seton .. • North Downs 2; - N.Wh'l Basset(lllo4an 3.1, - North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blaze),; ) ' Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.4 ISouth Caradon(St.Cleer, - 'B. Carn Brea (Illogan) - S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan, 18.1 - „Stray Park amar Sil v.& Lead Alin - fin Croft West Basset (Illogan) l, • 1W C radon (Liskeard) 5 • West Seton • Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5 • Wheal Buller(Redruth) 14 • Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.( • WhealLudcott ........ 3., • Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 • Wheal Seton 5! Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) 7 • I Wheal Union 3.' PREFERENCE SHARES. Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per ct., 93 North Staffordshire, 22 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 19i FOREIGN MINES. IFS 40 50 .7.6 23 30 78 19 BANKS. 1 Id 32 34 1 550 660 tO 67 70 KA 28} 291 4.0 6i 7 13.0 31 41 St 7 9 17's 21 31 0 31 33 18. t •91 12 $8 40 18.0 31 4 33 18 20 3 0 41 51 I d 91 85 95 if 1.0 14 21 L 9 4} 41 .0 Z 1 41 43 Li 1 450 470 9 10 16 18 1 195 05 90 95 i 0 30 35 .0.6 2 2i lli 12i Si 1200 205 ' 24 .17 1 224 24 ,SIONS. Closing Price. 11 58 60 100 102 i 103. 7i 11 ni 6} p 11 4 9i o 77 82 0 77 88 0 77 82 0 100 (02 0 98 100 00 103 105 IG2i 303 i 5 4) 2u 2(J ❑ 70 72 ll 60 452 11 CO 6: 11 51 63 11 48 50 11 40 42 11 25 27 11 23 CO )0 102 103 12 101 103 dl 10 10i 18 10i 10 6, 111 94 95 Xll 84 86 )0 101 i 102 i )0 94 96 )0 90 9s [1 158 69 a 1 s 82 84 ,00 102 103 tOO 101 101 2 p ip all iOO 102 00 100 193 05 MEN 1' SEC URITIES. 1031 4 Cobre Copper, .34 a Alliance (Um% 59 8 M Ditto, new, 49 Anglo Austrian, 61 Australasia, Ditto, new, 47 Bank of London, 176 Bank of New Zealand, 154 Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 13 British and American Exchange (lim.), 33 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 111 Consolidated Bank, lira., 11 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lira.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 144 Imperial Bank (Urn.), 39 Imperial Ottoman, 201 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 54 London and Brazilian aim.), 56) London and County, 615 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lim., 165 London Joint Stock, 45 London and South-Western, 25 Mercantile and Exchange. lira., 194 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lint., 29 National Provincial of England. Ditto, new, 441 Ditto, ditto, 334 Oriental Bank Corporation. 665 65 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, 11 South E 'stern, lim., 41 Union of Ireland, lim., 205 Union of London, 55,! 45) City Offices, Iim.:S:IISCELLANEOUS. Ceylon Company 11 Commercial Union, Insurance , 84 Corporation 15-x} Contract Discoun t lira., 44 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, lim. 55 E , glish and A us t ralian Copper, 14 Financial Corporation, 56 Fore-street Warehouse, Urn., 6 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, 91 Hudson's Bay, lei I Indian Carrying, Urn., International Financial Society, lim., 104 101 Joint Stock Discount, Rm., 7 64474; Land Securities, lira., 41 3 London Financial Association, lim., 265 London General Omnibus Company, 24 National Discount Company, lira. , 13 5 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lint, 24 3 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 854 The Patric an the Constitutionnel have recently made great fun of the war articles of our ministerial con temporaries, the Pattie exclaiming, a night or two since, after quoting the Post, " Here is England marching again —in the columns of a newspaper. How many campaigns of the kind have not our worthy neighbours carried on for some time past." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1864. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. The demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was by no means active. Holders, however, were firm, and previous quotations were well supported. The trade for spring oorn and lour was quiet, on former terms. On the Continent the corn trade continues dull ; and at New York, with a very limited export inquiry, both wheat and tour have considerably declined in value. The arrivals of English grain up to our markets last week were moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 6,496 quarters of wheat, 2,337 barley, 15,685 oats, 855 beans, 1,574 peas, 513 tares, 5,805 linseed. 7,730 oilseeds, 500 sundry seeds, 485 sacks, and 12,423 barrels of dour. Compared with Monday last there was a considerable falling off in the show of samples of English wheat on the i stands to-day; but the condition of the produce was tole rably good. The trade opened with firmness, both Kent and Essex qualities being held at an advance of is per quarter. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat —Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 4 Is Ditto, old •—s —s Ditto, white, 1863 415 46s Ditto, old —s -3 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —8 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 22s 25s Malting 24s 37s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 66s Chevalier 66s 68s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding lBs 23s Potato Youghal and Cork, black lss 23s Cork, white l6s 23s Scotch, Feeding l9s 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey Maple White Boilers 33s 36s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 30s Stockton and Norfolk .......... 27s 29s American, per barrel l9s 25s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of foreign beasts on offer in market to-day ; but the numeer of foreign sheep was only moderate. Sales progressed slowly on rather lower terms. 89j 2 90i The arrivals of beasts put up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were seasonably exten sive. English breeds came to hand in but middling condi tion, but the stock from Scotland was very prime. The receipts from Ireland were limited. For all breeds the demand was heavy, at a decline in the quotations compared with Monday last, of 2d per 81bs, and a total clearance was not effected. The best Scots and crosses sold at from 4s to 6d to 4s 8d per Blbs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgshire we received 2,300 crosses; from other parts of England 800 various breeds; from Scotland 434 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland 120 oxen and heifers. Business dont 1012 We were but moderately supplied with sheep, but their general quality was good, The mutton trade ruled firm at fully last week's currency. :Downs, out of the wool, pro duced 5s per 81bs. The few woolled sheep on offer sold readily at high prices, the top figure being 6s 4d per 8113 s. Limbs were in fair supply and steady request, at late rates—viz., from 6s 4d to 7s 4d per 81bs. About 600 came to hand from the Isle of Wight. Calves moved off slowly on former terms. The top price was 5s 4d per 81bs. 1031 2f Si We have to report a dull inquiry for pigs, at last week's quotations. Per 81bs.to sink the offal. 1011 2 s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Prime crs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme. S' thdown d 0.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Large orse. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 5 2 5 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 40 4 4 Small porkers 4 2 4 6 Lambs....6s 4d to 78 4d. Suckling calves, 16s to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs ; 20s to 25s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ... Cows — Sheep and lambs .... 3,010 Sheep and lambs.... 22,640 !Calves Calves l5O 1 Pigs Pigs. 4BO i The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 7,807 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 6,lol—in 1862, 1,537—in 1861, 5,306 —in 1860, 5,959—in 1859, 2,487—in 1858, 2,581 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WM. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 689 .. 294 28 .. 465 .. 356 Harlingen .... 740 .. 114 .. 16 .. Hamburg .... 156 3231 .. .. 308 Amsterdam.... 5 _ • . Boulogne.. 411 Bremen; ... 77 .. • • • . Dordt - Nieu Diep Antwerp .. Ostend. ..... 74 .. GO ... 99 1 1 11 - .. .•... 66 7 .. - 2 .. 2 .. 23 .. - 107 I i _ Calais. — • Oporto •• Dimkirk. 5O .. .. .. - .. 14 '''—' •• --• e• '—' •• 80 . . --- •II • • 384 Total .... 1694 .. 3896 .. 99 .. 512 ..1606 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863 903 .. 4,468 .. 265 .. 477 .. 48 1862 .. 128 .. 9 , 53 .. 79 .. 277 .. 100 1861 498 .. 4,207 .. 210 .. 206 .. 185 1860 1859 227 .. 2,048 .. 37 .. 180 .. 1858 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Oreat Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, May 11, 1863, and this day ; Monday, May, 9, 1864, Per 81b. to sink the offal. May 11, 1863. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. .. 4 0 4 2 Prime coarse-woolled do 4 4 4 6 Lambs Prime Southdown do. Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs.. 370 SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 12, 1862.--B , sheep and lambs, 24,680—calves, 125—pigs, MAY 13, 'lB6l.—Beasts, 4,4 Bo—sheep, 2 111—pigs, 360. May 9, 1864. 3 2to 3 6 38 4 0 42 4 4 46 4 8 3 6 310 40 4 4 46 4 8 410 5 0 64 7 4 44 6 0 52 5 4 36 4 0 42 4 6 5,270 25,820 480 oasts, 4,030- 430. 1,980--calves, NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are moderal In most descriptions a fair ai tely eupplied with meat to-day. rerage business is doing, at our Per 81b. by ed Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Riddling do, .. 3 2 3 6 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 0 3 10 Inferior mutton, 3 6 3 10 the carcase. d s 6 Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Veal. .. 3 10 4 10 Small pork 4 0 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Our market is very moderately supplied with English hops. For good and fine parcels there is a moderate inquiry, at full prices ; otherwise, the trade is dull, and the quota tions have a downward tendency. Last week's import was —5O bales from New York, 114 from Boston, and 19 from Hamburg. Mid and East gents L 5 Os to £9 10s per cwt. Weald of Keats 5 Os to 7 7s „ Sussex 4 15s to 6 15s „ Yearlings .. 3 Os to 5 Os „ Bavarian sss to 8 8s „ Belgian American BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of home grown potatoes to these markets continue on an extensive scale, but the general quality is by no means satisfactory. Good and prime samples are in moderate request, at our quotations; otherwise the trade is very dull. since we last wrote a few parcels have arrived from Germany and Portugal. Yorkshire Regents 4ss to 55s per ton. Flukes Rocks Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 35s to 55s „ Rocks Kent and Essex Regents SEEDS. There was a dull inquiry for cloverseed, and the quota tions were almost nominal. Linseed and rapeseed were in slow request, and prices had a downward tendency. Other seeds commanded a fair business on former terms. The transactions in cakes have been on a limited scale, yet no change took place in the currencies. furnip,White,p.bus.lls to 14s Swede —s —s Mustard, Brown lOB 13s Carraway 22s 268 Coriander l2s 168 llempseed, per qr 44s 468 Linseed,En.sowing 76s 78s Crushing - White, Tares, Spring.... 4s Od 4s 6d Old per quarter - s —s Canary, per quarter Ws 6!s Rye grass, new 22s 24s Clover, Red Eng., et 428 72s White Foreign Red Cs 48s White 5lB 688 Trefoil, new 22s 27s Baltic - —9 —9 Odessa —9 —s Linseed Cake, p ton —8 —8 10s.£10 lOs .....• FoFeign *,9108 £lO 5s Rape Cakes,p ton.£s Os £6 Os Rapeseed, new,pr qr 02s 658 WOOL. The second series of public sales of colonial wool for the year commenced on Thursday last. The arrivals since the close of last sale amount to 103,763 bales, consisting of From N. S. Wales and Queensland 15,281 bales. „ Victoria 46,958 „ „ Tasmania „ South Australia „ West Australia ~ New Zealand „ Cape Total The attendance of home buyers up to the present time has been large, and, notwithstanding the advance in the Bank rate of discount to nine per cent,, the biddings for all de scriptions have ruled active, at the full prices current at the close of last sales. Continental buyers have also been in good attendance, and these have made somewhat exten sive purchases, at very full prices. The private contract market is very moderately supplied with English wool, and and the trade is very firm. Buyers, however, appear dis posed, in consequence of the shortness of the supply as well as of the high price of money, to limit their transactions to the supply of their immediate wants. Current prices of English wool per lb. Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 111 to 2 O f Halt-bred d o Kent fleeces .. 2 Of 2 1 South Down ewes & wethers. 1 9 110 Leicester do. Sorts—Clothing Combing . , TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady to-day, and prices are 9d per cwt. higher than on Monday last. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s per cwt. on the spot; and town tallow at 38s 9d nett cash. Rough fat is selling at 2s 2d per Sibs. Particulars. 1850. 1851 1862. 1863. 1864. --- --....._ ---- Stock this day.... 287 a 67,609 35.042 40.6 2 50.050 Price of Y.C. .. f 5356 a t o 58 808 to 4 Es sd to 43 5 6 1 to 41s 3d to BOd —s Od --s Od ( Delivery last week —l3 Oct —s Oct 832 1,327 1,219 699 1,012 Ditto from June 1 , 7,7C0 76,015 115,171 75,b39 71,558 Arrivals last week 1 611 104 20 279 645 Ditto from June 1 93,152 116,530 93.467 78,272 83,761 Price of Town •... 54s 3d 678 3d 96s 6d 44s 3d 41s 6d Central Criminal Court—This Day, The May Sessions of the Central Criminal Court com menced this morning at the Sessions house, Old Bailey, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and other civic authorities. The calendar consists of a list of 84 prisoners for trial. The Grand Jury having been sworn, The Recorder, in delivering his charge, said be was happy to inform them that the calendar did not contain a very large list of prisoners for trial; and that none of the cases were of a very serious nature. There was a case in which a man had been committed for trial for unlaw fully wounding, but since that the person who had been wounded had died, and the case would be presented before them as one of manslaughter; and if they were satisfied that the death was occasioned by the wound, it would be their duty to return a true hill. There was also another case of manslaughter, in which a person who prac tised and represented himsel as a surgeon, not being duly qualified, was charged with having caused the death of the deceased for want of proper knowledge and skill, and gross ignorance. It appeared that he had operated on the deceased for a ease of the hip joint, from the effects of which he died. If they were satisfied that the prisoner was not a practical and prorerly qualified surgeon, and death ensued from his want of skill, it would be their duty to return a true bill. Having referred to a ease in which a person was charged with an attempt at rape en a young girl, the Re corder said the only other case he thought it necessary to make any observation on was a case in which two boys were charged with arson in setting fire to chattels in a dwel ling house. It appeared the prisoners had put some lighted paper in the letter box at the prosecutor's house, and set fire to a number of letters. When the fire was discovered it was found that the lighted paper put into the box was part of an old newspaper, the other portions of which had been traced to have been in possession of the prisoner. The jury would have all the facts before them, and if the evidence showed a prima facie case against the prisoner, it would be their duty to send the case for further enquiry before the petit jury, There was no other case in which it would be necessary to make any observations, and he wouli therefore at once dismiss them to their duties. The Grand Jury haring retired, A common jury was sworn, and the Court proceeded with the trial of cases standing over from last session. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. ALLEIOED ROBBERY IN A CAL—Margaret Mills, an unfortunate, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing from the person of Mr. James O'Brien, of 25, Newman street, Oxford-street, a leather bag containing £27105. in gold. The prosecutor said that about twelve theprevious night he met the prisoner in Oxford•street, and get into a cab and went with her as far as Holborn-hill, when they got out and got into another cab, telling the driver to proceed to the Marble Arch. On reaching Marylebone-lane, the prisoner got out and wanted to get away, and this caused him to suspect something, and putting his hand into his trowsers' pocket he missed a leather bag containing £27 10s, which he felt was safe in his pocket when he first met the prisoner. He then called a constable and gave the prisoner in charge. Mr Knox asked the prosecutor whether he was quite sober. The prosecutor said he had been to two publichouses, and at one he had some stout and ale, and at the other some brandy. Tho prisoner said sho did not remember anything, as she had been drinking. She did not take the prosecutor's money. Job Elliott, 355 D, said the prosecutor was the worse for drink, but the prisoner was quite sober. The prosecutor charged the prisoner with stealing his bag and money, and said she had run down a Court. Mr Knox asked what money was found on the prisoner, and the constable said only Bs. 6d. The prisoner said the prosecutor give her that, which he did not deny. Mr Knox said it was just possible the prosecutor might have dropped the bag in the cab. He could not detain the prisoner on the evidence, but he would advise the prose. cutor to go to the Lost Property Office at Scotland-yard and give information that the cabman might, if possible, be traced. The prosecutor had lost his money by his own folly, but the police would try and help him to recover it. Barns, the gaoler, said the prisoner could be found at a ny time if she was wanted. The prisoner was then discharged. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A Wrss.—Henry Vincent, of 8, Husband-street, a sweep, was charged with violently as saulting his wife Mary, by striking her on the head with a nar, Loosley, 46 C, said that at one o'clock yesterday morning he was called to No. 8, Husband-street, where he found the prisoner's wife smothered with blood, and unable to see, He took her to the Middlesex Hospital, where she had her head dressed. She was unable to attend that morning. In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said the wife told him that her husband cut her head open with a can, while the prisoner said it was done with his fist. The poor woman, who was very ill, told him that she did not like to appear against the prisoner, who had assaulted her before, as, if he were sent to prison, she would have to go to the workhouse. He believed the wife was frightened to appear. The prisoner said he had been out drinking comfortably with his wife, and he did not know what caused them to fall out, but he believed she threw some water on him. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner. THAMES. RoBNERT AND DIIVNXENNEB3 ON BOARD SHIP.--• Thomas Powell, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing sherry and ale on board the ship Regina, in the East India Dock, and being drunk on board The case was a very extraordinary one. Yesterday (Sunda)) evening, half -past 8 o'clock, a dock watchman, named Martin, saw a woman, a man, and 4 children coming along the west quay of the East India dock. They were all drunk, and reeling about. One of the children fell down and was senseless for some time. The party were taken to the dock watchhouse, and one of the women turned out to be the prisoner's wife, the man his brother, and the intoxicated little ones were his e ff spr ie s_. 5 _ . Clarke, a dock con. stable,went on board the ship,in the dock, and fonnd prisoner lying under the cabin table dead drunk. On searching the lazaretto under the cabin a chiselpb o totfl e w as a n s oof f t o ha u el er n d egao o sn n ke t o h ue containingt to o p f o o f n a e cask of sherry in bottles, and there w as a b ottle of sherry itshseincgabin smelt of sherry from another. The on board th e R eg i na at pacb w anlo i asdt t ekthlea: ale. The oa e dfs anTinl neckale. greatee pboTrffo is t There erenoensne prisoner had t uf h ebssr e ai heodnet7or, been ayn md work for some time, and he was left on board yesterday in the absence of the captain and mates to take care of the ship and stores. The chisel found in the lamarette was taken from the third mate's bunk. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to one months' im prisonment and hard labour. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GILATEsEND Monday Morning. Arrived, May B_Visserie, f r om Worcum_Roland, from Andsund—Mentor, from Worcum, Arrived, May 9—William, from Ystad—Agnes Fraser, from Seville—Ornen, from Dantsic. DEAL, Monday Morning. Anchored—Adelaide, from Bahia, for Bsenien—.Xolus, from Philadelphia, for Rotterdam, Passed—Conclops for Bombay—Jane, for Algoa Bay— Candidatfe, for Barbadoes — all from London —Austrian gunboat Seehunel, from Gravesend, for the Downs, after pairing. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL- Handers great choral work, "Israel in Egypt," will be performed for the last time this season on Friday next, the 13th inst. Madame Parepa, Miss Banks, Madame Sainton- Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Santley will be the principal vocalists. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTOESoc.at a meeting of the Council of.this Corporation on Saturday, the 7th inst., the following genthmen were elected members :—Mr. J. Aid. ridge, Kingston, Yeovil; Air. J. S. Bruce, Falkland House, Finchley ; Mons. P. J. Jaeckel, the College, Worthing; Mr. J. Langton, British and Foreign School Society; Mr. H. Newman, Wordsley, Stourbridge ; Rev. J. W. Tapper, Wood Green, Tottenham ; Dr. T. E. Watson, Eagle Hall, Southgate, The Armstrong and Whitworth Trial, The competition for supremacy between these field-guns has now lasted a month, each week of which has given varying results with regard to excellency, though none of them of such a conclusive kind as would warrant even the most experienced in pronouncing an opinion as to the ulti mate success of either. We say "either," for though three guns are in the field—the Armstrong shunt-gun, the Armstrong breech-loader, and the Whitworth—yet the varying equality of the competition we have spoken of must be understood to refer only to the performances of the shunt-gun and the Whitworth, The breech-loader is a good gun, and most especially is it good in its shell practice, a missile which it was only made to fire, But, beyond its shell practice, it is deficient in a thousand minor points, not much, perhaps, when stated singly, but formidable in the aggregate to either Sir William's shunt-gun or the hexagon of Mr. Whitworth. Out of this country, where the science of artillery practice is carried to a pitch of perfection which is apparently, to judge from the make of their ordnance, not even attempted by other nations, the breech-loader would no doubt be thought a perfect weapon. But, side by side with such severe standards of excellence as Sir William's shunt gun and Mr. Whit worth's hexagon, what were before thought to be minor imperfections are now, with stern jus tice, measured as radical defects, and it is not too much to say that the breech-loader is looked upon by all virtually out of the contest; It now turns only on the comparative merits of the shunt and the Whitworth. Thus, then, whatever may be the result of the trials as regards the supremacy of the Armstrong shunt-gun or the Whitworth, the competi tion has not been made in vain. Ali eady the country has gained an immense advantage by the incontestable proof thus afforded that the gun with which our batteries in the field are now armed is not the best that can be got. Such an all-important truth is well worth a little cost and trouble to elicit, and we know now beyond all doubt that, whatever may be the result of Mr. Whitworth's claims, Sir William Armstrong himself has in the shunt gun invented a very much fitter piece of ordnance than that on which our troops are now depending in the use of the breech-loader. The literal market value of such a result can scarcely be over estimated. It now, therefore, only remains to be proved which of the two conquerors of the breech-loader, the Arm strong shunt-gun or the Whitworth, is the better piece, and whenever this result is definitively ascertained the country may rest content in the assurance that they possess an artil lery which, until it is copied, will be without an equal in the world. In the present state of this competition we cannot venture on even a surmise as to which of the two will prove the victor; but we can say confidently that the time is fast approaching when the most momentous question at issue between the two ordnance—that of endurance—will be decided one way or the other. Nino hundred and ninety-two rounds have already been fired from each gun, and each now gives the signs of wear which may or may not be developed into alarming weakness at any moment.;More than this,in the absence of strictly reliable information, and with the intense party feeling which prevails among the supporters of each gun at Shoebury, it would be unwise to say. We mast add, however, that both Sir "William and Mr. Whitworth disre gard these defects as comparatively trivial, and that, on the other hand, the committee did not quite agree in this opin ion, or, at all events, as a prudent measure, have determined after the thousandth round, which will be fired to-day, to treat them as unproved guns and fire them with a long lan yard while the gunners are under shelter, The mere fact of such precautions being taken is an evidence of the begin ning of the end—an end which would terminate the whole controversy if it took place with the big guns, bat which we must be careful not to regard as final with these small ones. The principle of strength, rifling, and construction which answers for a large gua will, as a mathematical certainty, answer for a small one, but as an almost invariable rule R hat does for a small gun will not do for a large one. The great question, therefore, of destructiveness, length of range, accuracy, and endurance will be tested quite irrespective of the results of these field-pieces. It will be the trials of the large guns which will form the court of final appeal. As far as they have yet been gone through, the trials embrace almost every kind of performance which could be exacted from a gun in active service, with very many which the utmost exigencies of a rough campaign would rarely call forth. For range at various degrees of elevation the tests have proceeded up to ten degrees, at which Mr. Whitworth's gun threw its shot on an average 350 yards further than the shunt. This may seem a trifling differ ence at 4,000 yards, or nearly two and a half miles—a range at which an engagement with such light guns would be quite impossible. It must not, however, be forgotten that if at two miles and a half there is an advantage to Mr, Whitworth of 350 yards, at 20 degrees elevation, or four miles' range, his superiority would amount to nearly , half a mile of increased range, and increased range as re gards the shot is greater penetration and more direct flight, which is, in other words, a lower trajectory or flatter curve as it drops from the muzzle of the gun to the earth. As a set-off against this we must bear in mind that Sir 'William's shunt gun has been found to be sighted too low and Mr. Whitworth's too high; and, though the difference is far too minute to affe3t the results at 4,000 yards, it might make a material change in the question of flat trajectory at 400. In fact, from the tests made of initial velocity, or the speed at which the shots leave the gun's muzzle, it has been proved that the actual velocity is higher with Sir "William's shunt gun than with Mr. Whitworth's. At 800 yards, however, Mr. Whitworth's shot is close upon Sir William's, and at 1,000 or 1,100 yards is, no doubt, equal with it in rapidity. We only mention this fact of initial velocity to show that on the question of flat traje Stories Sir William's shunt gun has a flatter trajectory up to 1,100 yards than Mr. Whit worth's. But fiat trajectories, or, to speak in plain Eng lish, low lines of flight of shot from the gun's muzzle, are only valuable at low angles of the gun itself—that is, when its muzzle is not much elevated, and the shot therefore ranges throughout thegreater part of its course across a field at about the height of a man. At high elevation of the gun, when a great range has to be reached, and the diffe rence between a high and a low tranjeetory is a difference of 100 or 200 yards above the ground, the low trajectory that passes at 100 yards is in practice as valueless as the high trajectory which passes at 200, for in both cases the shots are not more noisy and quite as harmless as the idle wind. But at low elevations of the gun a low tatjectory is valuable in practice, and is a result which all scientific gunners and inventors of guns strive hard to obtain, for, as a rule which never varies, the lowest trajectory at all ranges is the truest gun—that is, it is the gun that sends its shot longest in the straightest line, The test of initial velocity proves that Sir William's shunt-gun has the lowest trajec tory up to 1,000 yards, and the increased range gained by Mr Whitworth at 4,000 yards proves that he keeps not the lowest throughout, but a low trajectory for the longest time. Last week trials were made at stockades, very simile' in their power of resistance to the " paha" in New Zealand. These trials proved nothing worthy of recording, If meant to show that men under cover of the stockade could be killed, the targets were placed much too close to the 15 inches of green elm which formed the stockade to display the effect of the shell on bursting inside them. If it was meant to destroy the stockade, the charges with which the shells were fired were much to large, as they all passed through before burst ing. The whole trial was, in short, one which had evidently been discovered among the red-tape archives relating to the tests of smooth-bore artillery, for as a test of rifled ordnance it was almost worthless. The charges of powder were either very much too great for such obstacles, or the ob stacles themselves were very much too great. The most interesting trial was made with targets representing regi ments of infantry in quarter-distance column. Each gun, the shunt, the breach-loader, and the Whitworth, had a series of targets to itself. These targets were of 2-inch deal, and for each gun presented a front of 64 feet wide, and behind each front line of 64 feet were placed five ground. similiar targets, at intervals of 15 feet apart. They were, in fact, placed for each gun so as to present exactly the same formation in width and depth of a regiment of in fantry, moving, as they almost always do move, from point to point, when in action in quarter-distance column. The targets, however, were nine feet high instead of five, as a regiment at 450 yards, which was the range for the guns to practice at, woald have appeared to artillerymen. The firing was expected to be made with case shot; but Mr Whitworth preferred either percussion or time shell, for rea sons which we shall presently endeavour to explain. The practice with all the guns was good, except in the case of the breech-loader, for the shortcomings of which very plau sible reasons were given as to wrong sighting, with which, however, we have nothing to do, merely confining our re cords to results accomplished. Both the Armstrongs _fired with segment shell and con cussion fuses ; the Whitworth with shrapnel shell and time fuses. On each series of targets the following results were produced wtth five rounds from the three guns. With ' the Armstrong shunt-gun there were through the six tar gets, from first to last, 591 distinct perforations :and 652 places in which either fragments of the shells had lodged or deeply indented the wood, making 1,273 marks in all. With the Armstrong breech-loader there were 333 perfora tions and 363 places in which the fragments had either shuck or lodged, making 706 marks in all. With the Whit I worth there were 524 perforations and 132 places in which either the shrapnel bullets had struck or lodged, making 656 marks in all. In addition to these marks Sir William had opposite the targets opposed to his shunt-gun three ragged holes—one 10 inches by 9 inches, one 14 inches by 12 inches, and one 15 inches by 5, so that in destructive effect the victory of the Armstrong shunt is here so pre eminent as to require no further comment, On Friday morning last the same trials were continued with the same targets to find the number of men which each gun would kill in five rounds—the result to be ascertained after the firing was over by forming up soldiers in line in front of each target, and then counting the perforations only which had been made in the wood behind every man. This test gave the shunt-gun a total of 108 men killed, to the breech loader's 118 men killed, and to the Whitworth 89 men killed, in this case, also, very plausible reasons are alleged to account for the Whitworth shells killing in theory fewer than the other, but we can ino more enter into these excuses than Sir William's explanations why Whitworth beats him in range, or why his breech loader shot badly at the t,ial we have mentioned. These tests, we have said, ought to have .been made with case shot, but Mr. Whitworth did not wish to use it, and preferred his time-fuzee shells. Case shot is a mere thin cylinder filled with musket; balls, and stopped at each end with a wooden wad. This cylinder instantly breaks on leaving the gun, and the balls, spreading into a circle, tell with murderous effect upon men at 400 and 500 yards, and from the shape of Mr. Whitworth's hexagon rifling it is said he cannot use this missile with effect. Such a deficiency —if it really exists—is not of serious moment ; but still it would be a deficiency, and as such, no doubt, recorded against the gun. Using time fuzes at such a range as 450 yards appeared to be objectionable. In time fuzes a mis. calculation of the time of bursting, even such an infinitesi mal miscalculation as 1-10th of a second would be sufficient to make the shell burst 40 yards too soon or too late. When I such fractional nicety is required it is like expecting im possibilities to suppose that men in the hurry and hot blood of action, with the enemy as close upon them as 450 yards, would be able to cut fuzees with such minute accuracy a s to allow for 10ths of seconds in ever varying distances. How it would be in action with no previous knowledge of the ranges was shown on Friday at Shoeburyness, where, with perfect knowledge of the range, with ample time, the most scrupulous care, and every scientific adjunct required to insure success, only one shell out of five burst precisely where it was wanted, right in front of the targets. In mak ing these remarks we wish most carefully to guard ourselves from being supposed to advance anything against either the principle or efficiency of Mr. Whitworth's time shell, of which it is not too much to say that it is the most perfect missile of the kind ever invented. The percussion shell of the Whitworth gun is far inferior to it, and, as compared with the general efficiency of Sir William's percussion shell may be pronounced almost a failure. As yet it has effected so little that on every occasion he can do so Mr. Whitworth prefers to use his time shell, and with very good reason, After the trials at these targets were over, another test of endurance was made by firing 50 rounds of shot from each gun, which were then left to cool, and impressions taken of their interiors to show wear and tear of bore. It is only necessary to say that these impressions proved that the guns are wearing, though we are not yet in possession of such authentic information as to state which has worn most. In our account of the experiments made at Shoeburyn ess on Friday the merit of Captain Palliser's plan of fastening armour-bolts was inadvertently ascribed to his brother. The praise is due to Captain William Palliser, of the 18th Hussars. IRELAND, DUBLIN, May 7. The affliction of Lady Fitzgerald and her family has been aggravated by a barbarous outrage on the part of the peasantry. The popular feeling, it seems, did not go with the verdict of the jury, and the impression that prevailed among the lower classes was that the suicide of Sir Thomas Fitz. gerald was deliberate and of malice prepense, with the avowed purpose of defrauding his creditors. Consequently, they thought that the verdict should have been simply that he was guilty of self-murder, and as such unworthy of Christian burial. This view is to be ascribed chiefly to an hereditary animosity to the family, dating from 1798, when the grandfather of the late baronet, by his atrocious cruelties to the insur gents, acquired the sobriquet of " The Flogger," by which he was long remembered in Tipperary. The Irish peasantry firmly believe in Providential retribution in cases of oppression, and, if the wrong doer escapes in this life, they have no doubt that his descendants will be punished in his stead. Th• his tory of this family seems to have confirmed the po pular belief, for it has suffered several heavy calami ties, and all have been regarded as divine judg ments. The son of " the Flogger," who inherited his titles and estates, was drowned coming from Liver pool in the Nimrod. A young son of the suicide hanged himself some years ago from a nail stuck in the wall, to which he fastened a cord. According to the popular story, the boy was showing to his little sister and brother how his grandfather used to hang the rebels. Believing, however, that the verdict should have been filo de-se, a mob of strangers assembled in the churchyard of Ballygriffin on Saturday even ing, and filled the grave with stones. The funeral procession was as private as possible, the reaming being followed only by a few relatives and friends. They were met by the mob at the gate, expressing in such menacing terms their determination that the corpse of the suicide should not enter that con• secreted ground, that all remonstrances and en treaties were unavailing; and the coffin had to be borne back to the house. The Rev. Mr. Ryan, P.P., exerted himself to calm the excitement of the people; and nest day he addressed them from the altar, strongly condemning their conduct. On Monday morning the interment took place under the prctection of a strong body of constabulary 150 in number. A guard remains upon the grave day and night. The funeral set vice was . read by the Rev. Y. M. Poole, rector of the parish. The Rev. Mr. Ryan and his curate, Mr. O'Connor, were present, and exhorted the people not to disturb the remains just committed to the A coroner's inquest held at Waterford lately re minds us of negro life in a Slave State. A man named Keawn was found dead on the road in the townland of Grange on Thursday morning. The body was divested of coat, hat, and necktie, and discoloured under each ear. The coat was found in the house of Mr. Penrose, a gentleman of means, near whose residence the body was found. It ap peared that the deceased, a man about 60, had been in the service of that gentleman and slept in the house, which he had left at 1 o'clock on the night his death. Under these circumstances the consta bulary arrested Mr. Penrose, pending the coroner's inquiry, on suspicion of having murdered his ser vant. The first witness examined was his sister, Miss M. M. Penrose, who stated that she never heard her brother threaten deceased, and that he could not have gone out on the night in question without her knowledge. She had known servants to run away on one or two similar occasions to keep out of the way. Another witness, Mary Ann O'Brien, a servant in the house of Mr. Penrose, told the following story—Her master came home about 11 on Wednesday night a little under the in fluense of drink. He neither saw her nor the man servant, but threatened to take their lives. Witness left the gate, not wishing to be in his way, as he had several times struck her. Keown and she then hid under the tree. Mr. Penrose had let out the dog, and the deceased bid his companion hide, or the dog would find them out. They soon after left the tree and concealed themselves in the coalhole, where they remained for two hours. Witness then took courage, and crept out to Miss Penrose, who said she would leave the house and had written about lodgings. Witness then called Larry (the deceased), and said all was right as Mr. Penrose had gone to bed. But hearing his voice " very cross'' she ran out at 1 o'clock. He came down and said he would take her life. She ran, and be followed tier to the road gate. She heard him say that Larry was past his labour, and he would take both their lives as they were no use. He had attacked her three months ago and struck her very severely, and also nine months before. When he was in liquor he often struck Larry. He knocked him down twice by striking him on the side of the head severely, and grasped his throat. Mr. Penrose seemed to " have a great wish for Larry," though he struck him in a passion. Larry had taken off his coat and necktie because he was afraid his master would " choke him with the handkerchief. He did so several times." Mr. Penrose was never cross when he was sober. He came home under the influence of drink two or three times a week. He was not always violent. Mr. Penrose was elm minen, and stated that he came home late on Wed nesday evening, having taken some liquor during the day ; he did not strike Larry that night, but he asked him about a dog and " called out he was no use." He also scolded the cook about leaving the kitchen door open. He did not notice where de ceased went. Dr. Carroll, who had made a post mortem examination, deposed that there were no marks of wounds or contusions or violence on the body. There was fatty degeneration of the hea r t , and the lungs were congested; the liver also was highly congested and full of blood. Tne disease of the heart was sufficient to cause death. The old man was not able to bear undue or extraordinary excitement. The Coroner, Mr. Delahunty, Eumnied up, and the jury found that deceased '° died by the Visitation of God." Mr. Penrose was di:::eharged. Two Austrian men.of-war left Brest on Saturday for the North to join thr2 Austrian squadron. PLEASANT 1—" Colonel," said Butler, "should the chances of war throw me into your hands, what would you do with me ?" " I should execute you upon the spot." "Is this purpose entertained generally by the officers of your army ?" "yes, and by the privates too." "Sir, I thank you for your candour," " Sir, you are entirely welcome to it," 101 39i 401 1094 I -97 111 12i 1 Oi 30} iJ 103 105 10 132 104 102 104 90 02 /0 89 91 )0 106 108 )0 107 109 )0 ICB 110 10 110 112 )0 105 167 10 100 108 10 196 108 00 102 104 00 - 993 1001 N 101 99 101 10i 111 [O4 106 110 112 1107 i 108 i, :NES. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocx. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Da LATEST CITY AND WEST-END BETTING. There was considerable business done upon the Derby this morning. and Cambuscan and Paris was in great force. Birchbroom looked like receding, and there were people anxious to lay. The following is a list of actual business done : THE GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Major (offered) 100 to 15 agst Wingrave (taken) Bto 1 agst Dr. Rooke (taken) Bto 1 agst Guerilla Bto 1 agst Trust Bto 1 agst Greville Sto 1 agst Caller Ou 10 to 1 agst Limosina 12 to 1 agst Fontenoy 15 to 1 agst King Charming 15 to 1 agst Greenland 15 to 1 agst Vacuna colt TIIE DERBY. 6to 1 agst General Peel (cffered) 7to 1 agst Scottish Chief 8 to 1 agst Cambuscan (taken freely) 100 to 7 agst Birchbroom (offered) 14 to 1 agst Paris (taken freely) 100 to 7 aget Coastguard 15 to 1 agst Prihce Arthur 15 to 1 agst Historian 25 to 1 agst Ely 25 to 1 agst Forager 25 to 1 apt Blair Athol 25 to 1 agst Baragah (taken freely) SPORTING NOTES. Although all the sporting writers failed to predict the winner of the Chester .%up, after having selected all the favourites, besides several others, to beat the field, it affords me great gratification that my only selected, Little Stag, ob tained the second situation. lie was at 12 to 1 last Mon day, when my letter appeared in 24s Sun, so that those who backed him to win and for a place cannot complain of my advice. It is most absurd for handicappers to give old horses the same weight as three-year-olds, The York Spring Meeting commences to-morrow. For the Craven Stakes Little Stag has only to put in an ap pearance to carry it off. In his absence, either Antoinette or Donnybrook will win. The Great Northern Handicap will likely be contested by a large field. King Charming, one of the dead-heaters for the Metropolitan, I do not ex. pact will see the starter. Major, the other dead-heater, will nearly win. Wingrave, from his running with Stradella and Isoline, must be very dangerous. East Lanca shire, from his formward position in the Chester Cup, is bound to run well. Fontenoy, it is said, will not stay the distance, but I have a different opinion, and think if he does not win ho is almost certain to get a place, Greville is another that must not be despised. Guerilla is a good sound horse, but I expect Wingrave will beat him again. Dr. Rooke is a great good-looking colt, with fine speed, and if he can stay the course, he will nearly win. The winner, I expect, will turn up in either Wingrave, Major, or East Lancashire. The Flying Dutchman's Handicap will be only a canter for Little Stag. A FRESH MAN. CITY BETTING—SATURDAY. GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 6to 1 agat Major (taken) Bto 1 agst Wingrave (taken) Bto 1 agst Caller Ou (taken) 10 to 1 agat Greville (taken) 10 to 1 agat King Charming (taken) 10 to 1 agst Trust (taken) 15 to 1 agst Fontenoy (taken) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst General Peel (offered) 15 to 1 agst Paris (taken) 20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Ely (taken) 25 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 50 to 1 agst Major (offered) Anecdotal Recollections of Meyerbeer, The death of the great Meyerbeer, says the Court Journal, has come upon the musical world like a thunder-clap in the midst of a brilliant summer day. Not one amongst us, not even those who stood around his bed an hour before the sad event took place, had the smallest idea that death could be so near. We, restless, pre-occupied with great anti• cipations as usual, only a few days ago. He was relating, with sparkling eyes, vivid voice and gesture, all the delight he had experienced while listening to Rossini's Mass at Pillet Will's soiree. We were contemplating with the most intense admiration all the play and varied expression of his thin but energetic countenance. The certainty of long life and continued labour was inscribed in, every line of that marked forehead; and as he followed in memory the musical phrase which had pleased him most, waving his finger in the air, and humming the notes with delight, so greatly was be carried away by his enthusiasm, that he actually paused to clap his hands at the ingenious turn of one of the phrases. "Ce diable de Rossini !" ex claimed he as he threw himself back in his arm chair gathering the folds of his dressing-gown over his thin legs ; " who ever would have imagined he would become one of the Fathers of our musical Church P' s The life led by the great composer for the last 20 years has been that of a studious Benedictine monk. He was wont to rise at six, and to work without ceasing until noon, seldom taking other nourishment than a cup of coffee, which his servant used to place on the edge of the piano without a word, merely contenting himself with rattling the spoon and cup until it attracted an impatient nod from the composer, thus forcibly arrested in his com binations. Sometimes the coffee would, however, remain untouched the whole day long, and then the despair of the attendant would be at its height. He would enter under every pretext—to stir the fire, to open the window, to consult the clock—and each time would rattle the cup and saucer as if by acci dent, flying from the room in alarm at Meyerbeer's impatient gesture when roused from his deep study. He never took more than one meal a day, and that waz late. It was not till this had been accomplished that he sought for amusement or distraction in the world. He was a most assiduous frequenter of the Opera, never missing a single representation. For Italian music he cared bit little, declaring that it ofto have been vivid. German science what the graceful painting of Watteau is to the stupendous co a mpo . siti :ass Rubens. His impression of sudden death with ith and gr h ea ls t dread of being buried alive must wasiarguing with great In a letter he begs than his veins may be opened, catastrophe evidently with a view of preventing upon which ho was wont to ch" l . l horror, and not long ago he wh i c h h . e has ben buried, and interest upon the most probab e sensations expe4 himself in the solitude and darkness of the rienced by an individual on first awaking from the lethargy during finding tomb. clause me ntioned Is add e d su b sequently to the rest, it is possible that it may have b een the a result of reflections induced by the conversation alluded to. Aleyerbeer's fortune amonnted to £20,000 per annum . In Berli n h is f am il y occup i es the finest position ; b u t even t h ere, wh i le h i s w i fe and . da u ghters, from th e i r f or t une an d s t a ti on , were receiving th e e lit e o f society in his splendid mansion; be was content to inhabit a small set of rooms upon the uppermost story, where—his only companions his harpsichord and music-desk—he planned and rehearsed the vast musical concep tions which have rendered his name celebrated throughout the world. His will not being known as yet, anticipations are free, and the general im pressious inP ar i s i s th a t h e h as left the copy wright of the " Africaine" to the Conservatoire of Paris. France was the country of his adoption, and he loved to be mentioned as the " great German cog poser of French music." By a singular contradic tion of all preconceived ideas, he always declared that in Paris alone could an opera be rehearsed with sufficient perseverance to enable it to be pro duced before the public with justice to thecomposcr. The Botsclulafter, of Vienna, in speaking .of Engltaid and her conduct relative to the Danish question, declares that British poiicy no longer consists of wise and mature combinations, but of national fancies and momentary caprices." The Austrian Gazette in its turn dec!arss that the cons duct of England is inexp!icabl3, and that her un bounded desire for peace leads her to acts which are the greatest obstacle to it, h 46i f 1091 65 100} 551 77 6